2 Nice Japanese sites

[Tony]

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~a6m232/index.html

I think this is a Zero under rebuild, not sure which one it is.

http://oita.cool.ne.jp/friendskyoita/#fso

A Japanese resource page , follow all the links you can, there is some good stuff in here

[tom d. friedman]

fabulous site!!! detailed pics, & pics are rare as hell & excellent quality too!! thanks for the site find!! added to my favorites!! tom

[Tony]

Thanks Tom

When you look at as many sites as I have, you only tend to mention the ones that have got something new and exciting.

Is that Japanese guy actually BUILDING his own A6M2?

The work on the panels , instrument panel and gear looks first-rate.

[tom d. friedman]

tony, we have the same champagne taste. while all is still cool with the run of the mill usual, i'm bored stiff with the run of the mill stuff such as b-17, me-109, p-51, zero, etc & the other moldy oldies constantly mentioned. yes, they always raise an eyebrow, but i look for unique & new stories & facts on everybodies favorites, but i am into the more obscure types both allied & axis ww 2. best, tom

[HarvardIV]

Hi Tom and TOny:

Tom I'm allied to you, I get tiired of all of the same old planes and airshows. I want to see someone rebuilding something exotic!!

Tony, same goes for you, I think we have a lot in common w/ respect to finding a buried warbird somewhere, or better yet buried treasure.

Anyway, guys this Japanese ENTHUSIAST looks like he truely is building up a Zero from patterns and using the original castings. Nothing short of amazing. I don't think I'd have the wherewithall to do it. I can see that he is intent on reusing his elevator hinge castings, propeller, and tail gear casting.

His instrument panel has a similar shock mount system as the T-6, and the elevator hinge casting looks very similar. I'd say if he reuses all his castings and prop maybe he could call it 10% original. What a guy.

Chris

[O.P.]

Thanks Tom

When you look at as many sites as I have, you only tend to mention the ones that have got something new and exciting.

Is that Japanese guy actually BUILDING his own A6M2?

The work on the panels , instrument panel and gear looks first-rate.

Hi Tony!

I clicked on all of the links, but I didn't get the guy building an A6M2, its all in hong kong fooey. I can't find it for nothing. Do you have the direct link?

Thanks,
Orvis

[HarvardIV]

Hi O.P.:

This is just to be friendly, not anything else:

What's with the photo? Is that your dad or grandfather?

[O.P.]

Hi Chris!

It's Earl. Its a photo from one of my favorite websites,

http://www.foundmagazine.com/

It's "borrowed" from that site. I don't feel to bad about about it, they "found" it too.

I had, and still have a hard on for "Red 6", and that avatar/plane, but, ol Earl makes me smile every time I see him.

[turbo_NZ]

The Shinden Kai's an interesting exhibit. Made me look twice when I saw the 4 props bent, then realised it's displayed unrestored.
Look you guys said, some great sites, even if you don't speak Japanese !!


TNZ

[Tony]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

I spent 2 hours going through links, came to post, and the bloddy BBS said 'time out'

Insert very harsh language here.

There are some excellent sites linking off this main page on the 1st link , it is worth persevering.

[Tony]

http://gunsight.jp/b/

[HarvardIV]

Turbo NZ wrote:

The Shinden Kai's an interesting exhibit. Made me look twice when I saw the 4 props bent, then realised it's displayed unrestored.
Look you guys said, some great sites, even if you don't speak Japanese !!

Hi TurboNZ:

Yes, and it looks very corroded in the skins. Well maybe the ribs and stringsers are ok, but that's doubtful.

[tom d. friedman]

these sites are just incredible!!! the only problem is the japanese chicken scratch. it's like looking at a japanese koku fan book..... chock full of rare unpublished or very detailed pics that i can't read. when i click on an image or japanese title my computer comes up with "do you want to install japanese language pack?? i don't know!! that's why i'm asking you boys!! does the language pack automatically translate to japanese?? is it gonna goof up my computer?? viruses etc?? is it difficult to install?? it's like somebody putting a lobster in front of me & saying look at it all you want but don't eat it!! i really want to explore this site without committing computer hari kiri, or pee'in off the mrs for crashing the computer for my "daac" (dumb a** airplane crap) best, tom

[Tony]

As long as the download is a Microsoft language pack you should be ok. Have your Norton on anyway.

Top Tip: As you move your mouse over a link , look at what the link says in the grey bar in the bottom left corner of your browser. The links are invariably captioned in English.

Found another couple of sites, following links off links off links.

One was a rather good travel website with photos for Munda and the Celebes, complete with wreckage etc , most of which I hadn't seen before.

Also a very good Zero site. Full of Kanji of course, but I kept clicking on links to find 2 glorious sites. One that was airfield archaeology in Southern Japan, and another that featured a lot of photos of between the wars Japanese Military aviation, including Pilots, Aircraft and group photos . There was a lot of wartime stuff two. It looked like the website was the official Japanese WW2 Fighter Pilots association or some such.

Had to give it a break today, after I lost all the stuff I was going to post, because of the bloody timeout.

http://www1.neweb.ne.jp/wa/yamaki/top-s ... nngaku.htm
(click through the links)

Airfield archaeology site . Hadn't realise so many Southern Japanese towns were actually built either side of the old runways!

http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~oya-wm/contents01.html
Military Archaeology -After the Battle style.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/astroboy/
Astroboy's Zero page

http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_02/202.htm


http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_03/zero007-03.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_04b ... 7-04b.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_05a ... 7-05a.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_05b ... 7-05b.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_07/zero007-07.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_09/zero007-09.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_10/zero007-10.html
http://www.b-b.ne.jp/zero/zero007/7_11/zero007-11.html
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~la3k-kmt/index.htm

Last edited by Tony on Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[tom d. friedman]

many thanks!! tom